| Team | M | W | D | L | + | – | = | P | Last 6 | Status | |
| 1 | The Smoking Tree | 22 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 89 | 25 | 64 | 54 | ||
| 2 | Abbotsford FC | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 83 | 28 | 55 | 47 | ||
| 3 | SYDclub | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 75 | 32 | 43 | 45 | ||
| 4 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 109 | 30 | 79 | 44 | ||
| 5 | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 22 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 87 | 36 | 51 | 38 | ||
| 6 | F.C.Ailsa | 22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 73 | 30 | 43 | 34 | ||
| 7 | City Water Motel | 22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 74 | 54 | 20 | 34 | ||
| 8 | Hop Skip Jump | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 72 | 26 | 46 | 33 | ||
| 9 | Crystal Phallus FC | 22 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 66 | 42 | 24 | 32 | ||
| 10 | Brisbane Roar | 22 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 48 | 83 | -35 | 16 | ||
| 11 | Hellas FC | 22 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 45 | 110 | -65 | 9 | ||
| 12 | Myrtou FC | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 327 | -325 | 0 | ||
After 12 years, numerous rage quits and comebacks The Smoking Tree have finally lifted their first A-League Trophy. In a response to a message from Theme Dreamer, Aarons replied
“HAHA thankz man n it makes every rage quit comeback worthwhile”
The odyssey has been long and the rewards will continue for as long as he keeps the team together, which he has indicated will be about 2 seasons, before he sells up to do it all again.
A stellar second half of the season saw Abbotsford climb into second place. All the mid-season challengers such as the {Draxonia} Crimson Eagles, SYD Club and City Water Motel either sold off their elder statesman as City Water did, or just fell away as the season progressed.
Shrewsbury shrugged off a lethargic start, to finish strongly into 5th place. Below them Senior National Cup winners FC Ailsa were the best of the promoted teams with a solid mid table finish. After selling their best players City Water were lucky to hold on to the last spot of safety. Results for Hop Skip Jump and Crystal Phallus were patchy leaving them to run the Gauntlet of the Playoffs. The bottom 3 were going back to Division 1 long before the season finished.
Round Commentary
Round 12
Let’s do it all again
| City Water Motel | 10-0 | Brisbane Roar |
| Myrtou FC | 0-18 | Hop Skip Jump |
| SYDclub | 1-3 | The Smoking Tree |
| Crystal Phallus FC | 1-3 | Abbotsford FC |
| Hellas FC | 0-9 | F.C.Ailsa |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 3-2 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles |
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The Smoking Tree go 2 for 2 over SYD to see off one of their rivals for the title. Shrewsbury win at home over the Crimson Eagles to leave City Water as the main title challenger
Round 13
No real Blockbuster games. Abbotsford-Crimson Eagles and Crystal Phallus-FC Ailsa should be the most competitive matches
| City Water Motel | 3-0 | Hop Skip Jump |
| Brisbane Roar | 2-5 | The Smoking Tree |
| SYDclub | 12-0 | Myrtou FC |
| Crystal Phallus FC | 1-0 | F.C.Ailsa |
| Abbotsford FC | 1-3 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 7-0 | Hellas FC |
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Steady as she goes in Round 13
Round 14
The Smoking Tree can really put some distant between themselves and the rest with a win over City Water. From the looks of things there could be a surprise or two this round, it just has that feeling.
| The Smoking Tree | 4-2 | City Water Motel |
| Myrtou FC | 0-14 | Brisbane Roar |
| Hop Skip Jump | 2-2 | SYDclub |
| 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles | 3-1 | Crystal Phallus FC |
| Hellas FC | 0-5 | Abbotsford FC |
| F.C.Ailsa | 0-3 | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC |
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It’s the Smoking Trees title to lose from here. Crimson Eagles were lucky win against the Phallus.
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With Carrol, Kilmister and Shorten on the market City Water have given up on the title race. It’s now up to the Crimson Eagles or SYD will have to mount a challenge or the title is gone.
Round 15
We shouldn’t see to many changes up the top unless FC Ailsa can upset the Crimson Eagles. The most competitive game should be Abbotsford-Shrewsbury, both sides are level on points and equally matched.
| The Smoking Tree | 0-2 | Hop Skip Jump |
| City Water Motel | 7-0 | Myrtou FC |
| Brisbane Roar | 1-5 | SYDclub |
| 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles | 1-3 | F.C.Ailsa |
| Crystal Phallus FC | 3-1 | Hellas FC |
| Abbotsford FC | 2-1 | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC |
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The Eagles and Smoking Tree lose. The Biscuits mid table season continues.
Round 16
Busy me writing essays for Uni has me forgetting to do this again.
SYD climb back into the top 3 with a victory over City Water after the sale of their Midfield. Abbotsford called FC Ailsa’s bluff with a one sided tactic. While Shrewsbury took a close win over Crystal Phallus.
| Hop Skip Jump | 2-0 | Brisbane Roar |
| Myrtou FC | 0-12 | The Smoking Tree |
| SYDclub | 1-0 | City Water Motel |
| F.C.Ailsa | 1-4 | Abbotsford FC |
| Hellas FC | 0-8 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 4-3 | Crystal Phallus FC |
damo11
I’m begging for a win
Round 17
Can Shrewsbury, Crystal Phallus and FC Ailsa throw a spanner in the cogs of their opponents? The Tree have a 4-point lead with 5 games to play, City Water have given up the chase so only the Crimson Eagles and SYD can stop them now.
| City Water Motel | 0-9 | F.C.Ailsa |
| Hop Skip Jump | 1-2 | Abbotsford FC |
| Brisbane Roar | 2-1 | Hellas FC |
| Myrtou FC | 0-19 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles |
| The Smoking Tree | 3-2 | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC |
| SYDclub | 0-0 | Crystal Phallus FC |
damo11
No
scruttino
Well you’re safe from the automatic relegation zone and that draw rules SYD out of the title race.
Round 18
FC Ailsa could put the final nail in SYD’s title chances. While the Phallus will be hoping the get out of the relegation zone against the Smoking Tree and keep the title alive.
| 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles | 3-0 | Brisbane Roar |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 21-0 | Myrtou FC |
| Crystal Phallus FC | 1-2 | The Smoking Tree |
| F.C.Ailsa | 3-0 | SYDclub |
| Abbotsford FC | 8-1 | City Water Motel |
| Hellas FC | 1-5 | Hop Skip Jump |
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the final nine inch nail was driven through SYD’s title hopes. The Eagles now have to win everything and hope against hope
Round 19
Unless we see an upset nothing will change at the top. SYD-Abbotsford looks the match of the round.
| Myrtou FC | 0-11 | Crystal Phallus FC |
| The Smoking Tree | 3-1 | F.C.Ailsa |
| SYDclub | 0-2 | Abbotsford FC |
| City Water Motel | 1-3 | Hellas FC |
| Hop Skip Jump | 0-0 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles |
| Brisbane Roar | 2-3 | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC |
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Both the Crimson Eagles-Hop Skip Jump and Smoking Tree-FC Ailsa were good game, but results went the way of the Tree allowing them to secure the title in the next round.
Round 20
Even if Abbotsford manage a win over the Smoking Tree it’s only prolonging the inevitable as they have Hellas in round 21.
Attention now turns to the minor placings.
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 3-2 | Hop Skip Jump |
| 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles | 8-0 | City Water Motel |
| Hellas FC | 3-6 | SYDclub |
| Abbotsford FC | 2-1 | The Smoking Tree |
| F.C.Ailsa | 14-0 | Myrtou FC |
| Crystal Phallus FC | 6-2 | Brisbane Roar |
damo11
And me trying to avoid relegation.
scruttino
Abbotsford delay the party for one more round and give themselves a chance of a top 3 finish. But unless the sim really plays up I can’t see Hellas beating the Smoking Tree.
coconut_wolf_bandit
damo if you do your duty in beating Hop Skip and City lose to Shrewsbury, it’s gonna be a last round death fight to avoid playoffs
damo11
yeah, well that didn’t happen
Round 21
On paper this should be the round the Smoking Tree lift the title, nothing less than a simming or a double send-off will stop it from happening. But good on them, they deserve it.
Down the bottom half results could mean that City Water and Crystal Phallus will playoff for the last spot of safety in the last round.
| Hop Skip Jump | 4-1 | Crystal Phallus FC |
| Brisbane Roar | 2-1 | F.C.Ailsa |
| Myrtou FC | 0-15 | Abbotsford FC |
| The Smoking Tree | 13-0 | Hellas FC |
| SYDclub | 3-1 | 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles |
| City Water Motel | 2-4 | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC |
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Congrats to Aaron on securing the A-League title. The rebuild has taken awhile, but they’ll be top contenders for at least the next year if he doesn’t sell up during that time.
Down the bottom the playoff teams have been decided. We knew who would be relegated for quite a while. The top 7 know they are safe, with just the order of the finish to work out. Crimson Eagles could far from 2nd to 4th if they lose in the round 22 and other results go against them.
brucehuang
I beat Alisa which I did not imagine
aarons
CheeerZZz big earZ. YEHAA man Im finally the greatest. Ya ive got this squad for another 2 seasonZ then its a sell off and try a farkin again
Round 22
A strange last round greeting. I’ll be supervising the scoreboard bar at tomorrow’s reclink community cup at elsternwick oval tomorrow. Any melbournian’s are welcome to come down and say hi. Otherwise have a good round of MZ football
| Crystal Phallus FC | 4-0 | City Water Motel |
| F.C.Ailsa | 1-2 | Hop Skip Jump |
| Abbotsford FC | 4-1 | Brisbane Roar |
| Hellas FC | 17-0 | Myrtou FC |
| 《Draxonia》Crimson Eagles | 3-4 | The Smoking Tree |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 1-2 | SYDclub |
coconut_wolf_bandit
Translation: free beers on scruttino
scruttino
Haha, I’ll be the one in a black T-shirt.
damo11
How was it Scrut? I wanted to go along but was a bit too hungover from the night before.
maccorosso
I’m in Czech at the moment. Beer porn
scruttino
I was busy, but the day was good. The bar did around $10,000 for the day.
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Well that’s the season, The Smoking Tree extended out their points margin to win comfortably. I’ve some stats to crunch to figure out who won the awards which will appear in the end of season zone. But that was a good season.
damo11
Bit of a shocker for me on my return to the big league.
Competitions
The Rowden Medal
| Players | Clubs | Points |
| Giorgos Sakelariou | The Smoking Tree | 44 |
| Niklas Agotnes | {Draxonia} Crimson Eagles FC | 29 |
| Ian Kilmister | City Water Motel | 27 |
| Alvaro Saldanha | FC Ailsa | 27 |
| Bernardo Azzolina | Abbotsford FC | 26 |
| Duncan Mundine | Hop Skip Jump | 25 |
| Vaja Munch | SYD Club | 25 |
| Nereo Ulizes | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 20 |
| Benard Dobson | Abbotsford FC | 19 |
| Luis Angel Carlos | SYD Club | 19 |
It was a non-contest in the end as Giorgios Sakelariou won with a record margin of 15 points. This would have been less had City Water not sold both Adam Carroll and Ian Kilmister with 7 games to play in the season. Bundy’s Boot winner Alvaro Saldanha from FC Ailsa finished 4th in his first A-League season, scoring a lot of goals against weaker teams, yet struggling to replicate those feats against teams around or better than them.
Bundy’s Boot
| Player | Team | GP | G | YC | RC | |
| 1 | Álvaro Saldanha | AIA | 22 | 69 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Niklas Ågotnes | EAGL | 22 | 65 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Giorgos Sakelariou | TST | 22 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Vaja Münch | SYD | 22 | 52 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Nereo Ulizes | YUM | 22 | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | Bernardo Azzolina | ABD | 22 | 39 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | Gigi Ciuhandu | QLD | 22 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Tor Byström | CRY | 22 | 29 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | Ían Kilmister | 佟楼队 | 15 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Sabin Panțuru | GRAN | 16 | 28 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Esteve Pacorro | CRY | 21 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Pete Nelson | 21 | 23 | 1 | 0 | |
| 13 | Fortunato Alfonsi | EAGL | 22 | 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Buchanan Facey | HLS | 22 | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | Edwardo Markou | HLS | 22 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | Fabian Zăraşcu | QLD | 22 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | Rodrigo Ceni | EAGL | 22 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Lowrey Lingwoodock | YUM | 12 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Jonty Nurthen | QLD | 22 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Adam Carroll | BRI | 22 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Scoring 69 of FC Ailsa’s 73 total goals, that’s 94.52% of his teams goals for the entire A-League season, Alvaro Saldanha secured his first Bundy’s Boot on his first season in the A-League. Overhauling the mid-season leader Niklas Agotnes, with last seasons’ winner Giorgos Sakelariou in third.
A Cuddly Sheet
| Goalkeepers (Goals Against) | Clubs | Clean Sheets |
| Bruce Sinden – (30) | Crimson Eagles FC | 10 |
| Wagner Rosa – (30) | FC Ailsa | 9 |
| Eren Jaeger – (25) | The Smoking Tree | 8 |
| Yavuz Tanyol – (26) | Hop Skip Jump | 8 |
| Oliver Beattie – (32) | SYD Club | 8 |
| Szymon Bielatowicz – (42) | Crystal Phallus | 7 |
| Jurek Wisniewski – (28) | Abbotsford FC | 6 |
| Bongbong User – (54) | City Water Motel | 6 |
| Bleyd Renney – (20 games – 32) | Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 4 |
| Roy Boylin – (20 games – 73) | Brisbane Roar | 3 |
Bruce Sinden from {Draxonia} Crimson Eagles FC finished the season off better than anyone to claim his first warm blanket after numerous top 5 finishes. Wagner Rosa had a great first season in the A-League finishing 2nd, leaving last seasons’ winner Eren Jaeger in 3rd.
The Waterland
| Team | Total Points |
| The Smoking Tree | 97 |
| Hop Skip Jump | 86 |
| Abbotsford FC | 84 |
| SYD Club | 82 |
| {Draxonia} Crimson Eagles FC | 81 |
| FC Ailsa | 77 |
| City Water Motel | 77 |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | 75 |
| Crystal Phallus | 73 |
| Brisbane Roar | 39 |
| Hellas FC | 24 |
| Myrtou FC | 0 |
The surprise of the season was how Hop Skip Jump kept accumulating MVP votes despite finishing in the relegation playoff zone and being relegated from the A-League. They were the closest side to challenge The Smoking Tree, who have led the Waterland from about round 3-4 of the season all the way to the end.
Club MVP’s
| Abbotsford FC | Player Points |
| Bernardo Azzolina | 26 |
| Benard Dobson | 19 |
| Pete Nelson | 13 |
| Kenneth Morse | 7 |
| Moises Seco | 5 |
| Jurek Wisniewski | 5 |
| Bryce Brennan | 3 |
| Matthew Schultze | 2 |
| 俞益奕 | 2 |
| Stan Quigley | 1 |
| Cole Hursey | 1 |
| Emanuel Kihlberg | 1 |
| 84 |
| Brisbane Roar | Player Points |
| Sabin Panturu | 9 |
| Adam Carroll | 7 |
| Roy Boylin | 6 |
| Nicu Corjan | 4 |
| Gabriel Neervig | 3 |
| Corneliu Musetescu | 2 |
| Randolph Andrusiow | 2 |
| Calvin Freel | 2 |
| Marcelinho Neves | 2 |
| Adelio Ledo | 1 |
| Stamenko Radisavcevic | 1 |
| 39 |
| City Water Motel | Player Points |
| Ian Kilmister | 27 |
| Adam Carroll | 15 |
| Jedrzej Czerny | 5 |
| Bariscan Baykir | 4 |
| Tim Cahill | 4 |
| Jacobs Brennand | 3 |
| S. Zhen Feng | 3 |
| Manole Bunescu | 3 |
| Keefe Shorten | 2 |
| Bongbong User | 2 |
| Laurence Quigley | 1 |
| Emiliano Barto | 1 |
| Adnan Ozdeger | 1 |
| 77 |
| Crystal Phallus | Player Points |
| Esteve Pacorro | 17 |
| Tor Bystrom | 16 |
| Konrad Aron | 6 |
| Luiz David | 6 |
| Best Bundy | 6 |
| Adam Sandler | 5 |
| Szymon Bielatowicz | 5 |
| Alvaro Navarra | 5 |
| Loyd Delbridge | 3 |
| Drew McWilliams | 2 |
| Berny Bailey | 1 |
| Otto Bowen | 1 |
| 73 |
| {Draxonia} Crimson Eagles FC | Player Points |
| Niklas Agotnes | 29 |
| Clarke Riley | 12 |
| Emil Andberg | 11 |
| Fortunato Alfonsi | 8 |
| Rodrigo Ceni | 6 |
| Bruce Sinden | 6 |
| Mido Fielden | 5 |
| Vatan Suat | 3 |
| Brock Sewell | 1 |
| 81 |
| FC Ailsa | Player Points |
| Alvaro Saldanha | 27 |
| Jessop Locke | 13 |
| Wagner Rosa | 11 |
| Leonard Ballstrom | 11 |
| Alvaro Asplund | 8 |
| Eliot Lester | 3 |
| Mack Quinane | 2 |
| Earle Surman | 2 |
| Angus Cochrane | 2 |
| 77 |
| Hellas FC | Player Points |
| Buchanan Facey | 6 |
| Edwardo Markou | 5 |
| Lauder Brien | 4 |
| Jaroslav Mastny | 4 |
| Cristi Atanasiu | 2 |
| Ignac Vass | 2 |
| Marlon Horler | 1 |
| 24 |
| Hop Skip Jump | Player Points |
| Duncan Mundine | 25 |
| Gigi Ciuhandu | 16 |
| Yavuz Tanyol | 12 |
| Fabian Zarascu | 11 |
| Jonty Nurthen | 6 |
| Edgar Mietus | 6 |
| Florian Domenge | 2 |
| Edmund Skeen | 2 |
| Alvin Barclay | 2 |
| Brian Benton | 2 |
| Arnold Domenichetti | 1 |
| Sehzade Sumre | 1 |
| 86 |
| Myrtou FC | Player Points |
| 0 |
| Shrewsbury Biscuits FC | Player Points |
| Nereo Ulizes | 20 |
| Paul Freeman | 12 |
| Jamese Glover | 8 |
| Tyler Boyd | 8 |
| Rex Weeks | 5 |
| Lowrey Lingwoodock | 4 |
| Nedas Genys | 3 |
| John Harkness | 3 |
| Ralph Lunt | 3 |
| Aaron Orvad | 3 |
| Imanol Ruiz | 3 |
| Bleyd Renney | 2 |
| Arne Nolan | 1 |
| 75 |
| SYD Club | Player Points |
| Vaja Munch | 25 |
| Luis Angel Carlos | 19 |
| Oliver Beattie | 9 |
| Xurxo Placencia | 8 |
| Zbyszko Lanczak | 7 |
| Brandes Hayward | 3 |
| 谢响庭 | 3 |
| Teofilo Gomez | 3 |
| Jonathon Azulay | 3 |
| Yaar Maa | 2 |
| 82 |
| The Smoking Tree | Player Points |
| Giorgos Sakelariou | 44 |
| Jens-Erik Persson | 14 |
| Giovani Monteiro | 9 |
| Eren Jaeger | 7 |
| Vlad Chirtoaca | 5 |
| Lefteris Efthimiou | 4 |
| Simos Paouris | 4 |
| Manuel Negri | 3 |
| Ernest Gligor | 2 |
| Larkins McVey | 2 |
| Craig Sayner | 2 |
| Emanuel Leal | 1 |
| 97 |
Written by Scruttino
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